María Alejandra Pautassi

Literature major, art historian and cultural journalist. After receiving her Master’s degree in Digital Media from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, for three years Maria was the Digital Content Editor at the National Library of Colombia. There she was responsible for coordinating the production of virtual exhibitions and leading the library’s academic events program in digital humanities. Her articles on art and digital culture have appeared in Latin American magazines and newspapers. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American art, the relationship art - technology, history of photography, and issues of gender and race.

Literata, historiadora del arte y periodista cultural. Fue editora de contenidos digitales de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, donde se hacía cargo de la coordinación editorial y curatorial de exposiciones virtuales y lideraba la agenda académica en humanidades digitales. Sus artículos y reportajes sobre arte y cultura digital han aparecido en las revistas Arcadia, Semana, SoHo y el diario El Tiempo (Colombia), diario El Clarín (Argentina) y medios de circulación internacional, como la Revista Humboldt, del Instituto Goethe. Sus investigaciones se centran en temas relacionados con la historia del arte latinoamericano moderno y contemporáneo, la relación arte - tecnología, historia de la fotografía y problemáticas de género y raza.

Más publicaciones

THE PARADOXICAL INTERNATIONALIZATION OF “PROVINCIAL ART”. BEATRIZ GONZÁLEZ: A RETROSPECTIVE

Countering a slowly changing mainstream museum and gallery trend in the United States which has traditionally viewed Latin American art as derivative or exotic, an underlying thread of this exhibition highlights González’s contribution to the history of 20th-Century art, while dispelling the misconception of González’s work as part of the international pop art movement, in favor of more “nuanced practice in relation to the context from which it emerged.”